FC Alania Vladikavkaz (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Алания» (Владикавказ), Ossetian: Футболон клуб «Алани» (Дзæуджыхъæу)) is a Russian football team from Vladikavkaz. Founded in 1921, the club played in the Soviet Top League during the communist era, and won its first and only league title in the 1995 Russian Top League.
Since the Russian football league system was established in 1992, the main team representing Vladikavkaz changed ownership structure several times, also changing the team name from FC Spartak Vladikavkaz to FC Spartak-Alania and FC Alania and back to Spartak. In the 2018–19 Russian Professional Football League season, the team was financed by the provincial government and played as Spartak. Before the 2019–20 season, a new team, privately owned and called FC Alania was organized and licensed for PFL. However, FC Spartak also remained in the league for 2019–20, even though many players and coaches moved to the "new Alania".[1]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, 2019–20 Russian Football National League season was abandoned and none of the teams were relegated. After the licensing, the league had 23 teams eligible for the 2020–21 season. Having an odd number of teams would mean one team would get a bye on each matchday and the league preferred to have an even number of teams, therefore it invited PFL teams to apply for the license. Out of the teams that applied, on 24 July 2020 Alania was selected by the Russian Football Union for promotion to FNL.[2] On 15 May 2021, they secured a 4th place in the FNL which would normally qualify the club for Russian Premier League promotion playoffs. Alania failed to receive a Premier League license due to unacceptable condition of their stadium and therefore the playoffs were cancelled.[3][4] In the 2022–23 Russian First League season, Alania secured 3rd position, again qualifying for the promotion play-offs, only to fail RPL licensing once again due to still-not-reconstructed stadium.[5]
As of 4 September 2024, according to the FNL website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Valeriy Gazzaev 
Stanislav Cherchesov Zaur Khapov Viktor Bulatov Vasili Baranov Victor Onopko Yuri Kovtun Artur Pagayev Bakhva Tedeev Omari Tetradze Soslan Dzhanayev Igor Yanovsky Spartak Gogniyev Alan Kasaev
Mikhail Kavelashvili Giorgi Demetradze Murtaz Shelia Mikheil Ashvetia Levan Kobiashvili Giorgi Chanturia
Mirjalol Qosimov
Tamás Priskin
Renan Bressan
Dacosta Goore
Isaac Okoronkwo Sani Kaita
Ognjen Vranješ
Deividas Semberas
Ibrahim Gnanou
George Florescu Cristian Tudor
Rodolfo Zelaya
Royston Drenthe
Nazim Suleymanov
Sergiu Dadu
Kosta Barbarouses Grigoriy Gornostaev (1966–1967) Mussa Tsalikov (1967) Andrei Zazroyev (1968–1970) Kazbek Tuaev (1970) Sergei Korshunov (1971) Dmitri Chikhradze (1971) Andrei Zazroyev (1972) Ivan Larin (1973) Kazbek Tuaev (1974–1977) Viktor Belov (1977–1978) Mussa Tsalikov (1978–1980) Andrei Zazroyev (1980–1981) Aleksandr Kochetkov (1982) Valeri Maslov (1983) Ivan Varlamov (1984) Valeri Ovchinnikov (1985–1986) Igor Zazroyev (1986–1987) Oleg Romantsev (1988) Valeriy Gazzaev (1989–1991) Nikolay Khudiyev (1991) Aleksandr Novikov (1992–1993) Valeriy Gazzaev (1994–1999) Vladimir Gutsaev (2000) Aleksandr Averyanov (2000–2001) Aleksandr Yanovskiy (2001–2002)
Volodymyr Muntyan (2002) Bakhva Tedeyev (2002) Revaz Dzodzuashvili (2003) Nikolay Khudiyev (2003) Bakhva Tedeyev (2003–2004)
Rolland Courbis (2004–2005) Yuri Sekinaev (2004) Bakhva Tedeyev (2005) Edgar Gess (2005)
Itzhak Shum (2005) Aleksandr Yanovskiy (2005–2006) Boris Stukalov (2006–2007) Stanislav Tskhovrebov (2007–2008) Valery Petrakov (2009) Mircea Rednic (2009) Vladimir Shevchuk (2010–2011) Vladimir Gazzayev (2011–2012, 2013–2014) Valeriy Gazzaev (2012–2013) Artur Pagayev (2014–2015) Zaur Tedeyev (2015–2016) Fyodor Gagloyev (2016) Marat Dzoblayev (2016–2017) Yuri Gazzaev (2018) Spartak Gogniyev (2019–2022) Zaur Tedeyev (2022–2023) Oleg Vasilenko (2023-current)